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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Add ifdef and ifndef directives to the DXL interpreter to test for active includes and avoid repeated includes of the same files

the include directive is useful for structuring code and expanding scripts during runtime the absence of ifdef / ifndef makes it impossible to test for and avoid repeated includes of the same code (.inc files) this can create unnecessary and consi...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Add try/catch perms to DXL to aid in testing for and catching disruptive layout DXL error messages

In some places, DXL can run and throw errors that disrupt a workflow, block the UI or worse. A try/catch mechanism in DXL could allow DXL authors to test for and catch such situations better.
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Allow the creation of project or module archives while users are working on the data (remove the necessity for exclusive access during the archiving task)

Creating module and project archives must be possible in the background and in parallel, even while modules are in use. Backups of specific projects or modules can only be made during off-peak, users may work late or on weekends, and are thus bloc...

DOORS QCI shall support ALM 16

ALM 16 is the current iteration of ALM, and not yet supported by DOORS Quality Center Integration. Such support is hereby requested.

Introduce support for silent installation of DOORS client in system account context commonly used in systems management tools

The current logic for DOORS client silent installation installer routines relies on being run in a proper user context (for example 'Administrator' or a local administrator user) to have appropriate write access to unpacking files paths on the fil...

Integrity Check should identify modules which can not be opened in Exclusive Edit anymore

Additonamnl function for Database Integrity Check: Database Integrity Check should be able to check and identifiy the modules which can not be opened in Exclusive Edit. First identify modules and then make suggestions to make the modules modifiabl...

When there are non-ASCII characters in the ReqIF import file path.

As shown in the screenshot in the attachment, if there are non-ASCII characters in the import file path, the import operation cannot be completed. There are situations where customers cannot use the English path, so would like to see improvement i...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Import 0 Future consideration

DOORS direct connection to company LDAP

DOORS is not able to connect directly to a company LDAP, like DOORS Next. DOORS is able to do it via RDS, that is more or less a simpler LDAP. So the ideas is to make DOORS available to connect to company LDAP. RDS brings a lot of software to be i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Function to provide OLEType and OLECount

Most of the Doors Modules contains an OLE in the object text, fortunately we can only check whether object contains OLE or not but no option to findout the type of th OLE for ex: word, excel, pdf, paint, jpeg, png etc If you could introduce a func...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / OLE 0 Future consideration

Terminate user sessions after maximum 24 hours on inactivity to comply with CMMC AC.3.019

CMMC AC.3.019 requires terminating user sessions after a defined period: Validate that:1. User sessions automatically terminated after a maximum of 24 hours of inactivity2. After user sessions are terminated due to inactivity, the application is c...